VLC (VideoLAN) 1.1.4

Rated 20/50 by echohead at May 29, 2008

decent player for novice users who wouldnt understand many of the advanced features its missing. no fullscreen controls, matroska support that can only be described as "lazy", and a unhealthy obsession with pushing mp4 as a universal format. problems with subtitles first popped up years ago and have yet to be fixed. the interface, while not essential to the proper function of a media player, looks worse than foobar2000, and this is made worse by a lack of decent skins (god forbid the devs spend a few hours in photoshop to throw something together). preferences/settings are easier to navigate than earlier revisions, but could easily be improved. the two points i gave to vlc are for the fact that mac users have use this (unless they prefer perian), and that it did technically play most of the files i threw at it.

Rated 50/50 by poisonu at May 30, 2008

It plays everything I throw at it without need for any additional codecs..... I Love it.....

Rated 40/50 by mackley at May 30, 2008

Why in the official web site is still stated versione "f" ?

Rated 50/50 by Paul Skinner at May 31, 2008

@mackley: I presume it's the usual: upload on Friday for hardcore people, officially release it Monday.

Rated 50/50 by latire at Jun 1, 2008

I had to switch back to 0.8.6f because 0.8.6h freezes after 20s when playing adsl tv

Rated 40/50 by Metshrine at Jun 30, 2008

I have been praying for the day that this program receives global hotkey support. Without it, I really cannot utilize this program as having to manually switch to this window to perform certain things is just too tedious and requires far too much interaction. GHK support would make this the perfect media player.

Rated 30/50 by dpcdpc11 at Jul 14, 2008

when are u gonna make a OSD for the windows version??? and also make the options dialog window more friendly to the everyday Windows user?? would prefer kmp or mpc or even Mplayer over this one anyday!!

Rated 40/50 by seier at Jul 14, 2008

ChangeLog: http://wiki.videolan.org/Changelog/0.8.6i I'll keep giving this a 4 until they start mimicking the awesome behavior of Media Player Classic.

Rated 10/50 by kirilenko at Jul 15, 2008

The crappiest player by far.

Rated 50/50 by improvelence at Jul 15, 2008

The greatest video player of all time. And it's multiplatform.

Rated 10/50 by ailef at Jul 15, 2008

i don't like VLC. KMplayer is really good and is the best player for me. there is a huge list of options, some are very usefull like audio resampling, u can change output 5.1 to stereo 2.0, what is nice cause i really hate format sound when u hear nothing when people are talking then when there's a big action scene the sound is so loud, it's really irritating so resampling to stereo output stops this prob, if i don't change to 2.0, i need to turn the sound level high when people talk then slow down when there's action. i didnt look at all the options cause the list is very big but i bet u'll find all u need in it. when u read some HD file there's no prob to go anywhere very fast, with VLC it takes lot of time to go where u want, sometimes it's like the prog freezes, takes ages to go to any time of the file,especially with mkv files in 720p or 1080p. there's no prob with KMplayer, u can go to any part of the file while reading without waiting for the prog to find where it is, there's not just a little lag, the prog reads immediatly anywhere u tell it to. don't know if VLC corrects that cause now that i use KMplayer, i never used another video reader. there's GOMplayer but i had bugs with it. so KMplayer is actually the best solution far, it reads anything fast with no lag when u forward or reverse big video file. left and right arrow to surf the file while reading with not even a small lag and up and down arrown to control sound level. people should give a try to this great piece of software and forget VLC or other video readers. reading 1080p H264 with a core2duo E6600 needs 30% usage with KMplayer. my gpu is crap, some nvidia 7300GT so it's useless to decode this kind of video file. the intel cpu is good enough to do the job. the KMplayer is what u need :-)

Rated 10/50 by analphatester at Jul 16, 2008

not OS SUPPORT Windows ALL not running on WIN9x at all totally wasted time

Rated 50/50 by ^M^ at Jul 16, 2008

Very nice interface and skin improvement.

Rated 50/50 by turistas at Jul 16, 2008

who is stil using win 95 or 98 in 2008:D

Rated 40/50 by anomoly at Jul 20, 2008

Errors at start but then still runs. Immediately wants to 'update' to v8.6e when actual is 8.6i. Also, leaves tons of entries in reg after uninstall. Using 8.6i atm & mpc hc

Rated 50/50 by jbird37 at Aug 25, 2008

I have used the Media Player Classic that is included with the K Lite Codec Pack installation for a long time. Having recently installed Vista 64-bit, I noticed that I could no longer hear the musical score during movie playback, as well as some of the dialogue being missing. Thought it was a driver issue until I switched to VLC.....Problem Solved!!!!!

Rated 50/50 by xpplus at Sep 12, 2008

VideoLAN vlc 0.9.2 ( is not a beta ) http://download.videolan...n32/vlc-0.9.2-win32.exe

Rated 20/50 by anomoly at Sep 15, 2008

I was gonna try it but read posts. It always crashes with my pc. Even Klite's mpc crashes lately. I have been using mpc home cinema with nary a problem.

Rated 50/50 by poisonu at Sep 15, 2008

Best multi platform media player.... Great for TV from the web.... And it comes with all the video & sound codecs built in, so u don't have to worry about downloading any codecs..... ---------------------- start quote ------------------------ About VLC media player VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. It doesn't need any external codec or program to work. ------------------------------ VLC media player 0.9.2 * It is a free cross-platform media player * It supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs * It can also be used as a streaming server, with extended features (video on demand, on the fly transcoding, ...) ---------------------- end quote -------------------------

Rated 30/50 by oomingmak at Sep 15, 2008

After using VLC for a long time I'm really starting to go off it. It seems as if more and more formats either won't play, or play with bad on-screen artefacts, or play ok but can't be seeked. Media Player Classic on the exact same system exhibits none of these problems. So I use that most of the time instead of VLC.